Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Battle of Burma Communications
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Battle of Burma Communications (Ynnan-Burma Railway). DESCRIPTION: Traffic on the Burma Road has been moving in both directions. Lease Lend material moving into China and troops from Yunnan going into Burma. The building of a railway to relieve congestion has begun, under the direction of an American Engineer. SHOTLIST: Chinese troops coming from Yunnan Province along the Burma Road. Supplies and traffic using the Burma Road. Chinese reinforcements entering the North. Work on the railway and also shots of Mr Teeng Yang-Fu, Director General of the railway and the American Engineering Advisor. River banks sprayed with arsenic dust to avoid the mosquitoes and quinine is distributed, one child evidently does not intend to take it.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Health and medicine; Children; Environment; Weapons; Railways; Occupied territories; Engineering; Military
- Footage sources
- British Paramount
Rota
- Card file number
- 42148
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 193
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Battle of Burma Communications', British Movietone News Issue No. 671, 12 Apr 1942. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/12217 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)